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WATERFOWL
Southwestern Michigan
Northern Michigan
Northern Indiana
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DEER
Southwestern Michigan
West-Central Iowa
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TURKEY
Southwestern Michigan
West-Central Iowa
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FISHING
Inland Lakes, Southwestern MIchigan
Lake Michigan
Kalamazoo River, Michigan
St. Joseph River, Michigan
St. Joseph River, Indiana
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All information presented in these reports is provided by fishermen just like you, so help make these reports more current and accurate by letting us know your fishing news.  Come by the store or give us a call at 269-408-8398.

ABBREVIATIONS:  The only abbreviation that will be used here with any regularity is 'FOW' which, as you probably know, means 'Feet of Water'.

JULY 29

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Visit our Facebook page!  Go to the Discussions tab and enter your own fishing report!

REMEMBER:  If the date on this report is a few days old it means we haven't heard anything since that time.  We would welcome your input with anything new.

LAKE MICHIGAN:  No news.

ST. JOE PIERS:  Rumor of a couple of skamania caught on the piers this morning.

ST. JOE RIVER:  More rumor.  Word is there are skamania above the dam at Townsend Creek.

PAW PAW RIVER:  No news.

INLAND:  No news.

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ABOUT US

BJ Sports, Inc. * New Owner * New Manager..

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Store owner Ed Sommers and manager John Speckine want you to know right up front that you should expect to be treated like an old hunting or fishing buddy when you walk into BJ's.  We'll poke fun, tell bad jokes, and expect you to poke fun and tell bad jokes right back at us. Don't take anything we say in the store too seriously.  It's all in good fun.

Ed and John have known each other since the summer 2000 when they both joined that incarnation of the locally-known bar-band 'Border Line'.  They spent the next four years rehearsing nearly every week and playing almost every Friday and Saturday night.  They were the 'comedy relief' of the group and were guilty of many a practical joke on a fellow band member or a snappy retort to one another during a show.  They both experienced the highlight of their musical careers in September 2002 when the band was invited to open for country heavy-weights Keith Urban and Montgomery Gentry (we won't go into detail here about the long, blonde wig John sported in front of 20,000 people, but feel free to bring it up).  

CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES FROM THE BAND'S OLD WEB SITE (not all links still work on that site)

Nowadays, Ed is a Medical Laboratory professional at a large Health System in South Bend.  While not an avid hunter or fisherman himself, he's learning on the fly during his trips to the store.  It is the full intent of John and several of the local charter captains to get Ed and his family out for a day on the Lake to convert yet another lost soul to the siren song of Lake Michigan fishing.  (Man, that was beautiful - I may weep.)

Ed in his band promo shot.

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Proud disabled vet and former Atlanta Braves scout (which has nothing to do with BJ's - he just likes to brag about it) John handles the day-to-day operations.  He was signed by the Reds in 1984 as a catcher (a position he played from 1969 - 1994 with the knees to prove it), but you've never heard of him.  He's been into hunting and fishing since before his first baseball game.  His paternal grandparents owned a fishing lodge in Ontario in the 1960s and this put the bug in his brain to make a living from hunting and fishing.  To this end, he has been a 

John had to have that fish surgically removed from his right ear.

hunting and fishing guide for the better part of 25 years, charging for his services since 1993 (Big Lake Outdoors).

John is also an accomplished teller of tall tales and worked as a stand-up comedian, with VERY limited success, in the late 1980s, so be ready to listen to the occasionally embroidered, but still 100% true, hunting or fishing story.  Honest.

Click here to read some of John's lies (but really true - seriously).  

He is currently planning a series of free seminars for area young hunters and fishermen entitled "Fishing Lies and You:  A Beginner's Guide to Tale Embellishment".  He will use skills passed down to him from his Texas-born father, which he has honed over the years, and embellish as he was taught by his maternal grandfather (100% Irishman that he was) and Native American grandmother.  

He is certain these seminars will receive high praise and support from both parenting groups and school boards throughout the region.  In fact, a tour of multi-million dollar, internationally known businesses is being planned to help teach these skills to sales, support, and executive staff members for use in their daily interaction with vendors and customers alike.

But then again, they probably don't really need our help with that.

We'll see you in the store!!

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